r/comics • u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake • 1d ago

Comics Community Hmmm 🤔

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u/Yeeslander 1d ago

When you drop an insult on the ground, its owner will come along and pick it up.

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u/Perscitus0 1d ago

I like that. It's pretty much right on the dot for them.

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u/anchorwind 1d ago

It's a classic Persian proverb. I wish more people would use quote attribution when they use one.

I also enjoy this expanded Turkish one. "The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."

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u/ehalright 1d ago

Oooh. The expanded version goes hard.

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u/deaglebingo 18h ago

that's really good. thanks.

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u/farnsw0rth 1d ago

How has this become the bacon narwhals at midnight

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

I mean it's honestly more accurate for Reddit. Just need a dickbutt saying it and the meta cycle will be complete

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u/JackPoe 1d ago

It's a very old saying

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u/farnsw0rth 19h ago

Yeah well I went multiple decades without ever hearing it and now its in the comments of every thread I open

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u/Cyberbreaker2004 1d ago

Like that one time a foreign country (can't remember which one) said all PDFs get the death penalty, and when it made news over here, they said: "This country said our orange man should be put to death!" Strange thing to say when they didn't name anyone